Curated by Jennifer Blessing

Over the past decade or so, few issues have been as hotly contested as that of identity. In this show, GUGGENHEIM assistant curator Jennifer Blessing assembles eighty photographic works—portraits, self-portraits, and photomontages—by twenty-four artists to focus on the construction of gender identity in photography. Divided into two sections, the show focuses on works from between the two world wars and after 1968; highlights include Cecil Beaton, Brassai, Hannah Höch, Matthew Barney, Janine Antoni, Cindy Sherman, and Yasumasa Morimura.

— Mark Van de Walle